SANTA ANA - California's electricity grid is flickering like a failing light bulb, and its two biggest public utilities are te...
SANTA ANA - In a split verdict, Orange County jurors Wednesday found an Anaheim Burger King franchise liable for "outrageous c...
LOS ANGELES - Environmentalists aren't the only ones celebrating an appellate court decision that effectively bans oil drillin...
SANTA ANA - Federal prosecutors are recommending a nine-year prison sentence for former Santa Ana City Councilman Ted Moreno, ...
RIVERSIDE - A prosecutor described medical malpractice lawyer Lingaraj Bahinipaty as a "sophisticated, brazen thief and batter...
Judges and Judiciary
Panel's Ideas For Campaign Reform Likely To Raise Ire
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Seeking to curb increasingly rancorous and high-priced judicial elections, a group of national judicial and le...
SAN FRANCISCO - Douglas Young, the new president of the Bar Association of San Francisco, comes to the post with experience fr...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for corporate defendants, the California Supreme Court made it harder Thursday for class-action c...
The premise behind the law is that DNA testing technology has improved so dramatically in recent years that new testing could ...
Law firm legal secretaries are the unsung heroes of the profession. Even courts depend on them. Most judges do not have person...
Intellectual Property
Re/MAX Gets EBay to Change Its Ad In Settlement of Logo-Infringing Suit
By Staff Writer
DENVER - A nationally aired television commercial for eBay Inc. has been altered after a Colorado-based real estate company ac...
While the phrase "rolling blackouts" becomes a familiar part of the lexicon, state legislators are grappling with the complica...
During the year 2000, the Legislature enacted several bills that will have a major effect on the practice of probate and estat...
The year 2000 saw several significant new labor and employment bills passed by the California Legislature and signed into law ...
With astonishing frequency, I hear this exact remark, made during jury trial, usually when dealing with damages or other impor...
Mental health professionals have become an important part of the process of assisting courts in resolving child custody disput...
The War on Drugs has proved to be one of the most difficult, if not impossible, fights. The current laws, while threatening on...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge's ruling in a case in which environmentalists sought to impose massive fines for leaks from undergroun...
SAN FRANCISCO - The state's last outpost of municipal courts, Kings County, has unanimously approved consolidating its trial c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran trial lawyer Paul Gutierrez has dissolved his award-winning, four-attorney law firm, Gutierrez & A...
There are many changes in California employment law in 2001. ...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney's office illegally made $1.7 million in interest on parents' child support pay...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge Wednesday temporarily halted the threatened cancellation of contracts that empower Southern ...
WASHINGTON - Citing what she called John Ashcroft's "ultra-right wing" record and his treatment of federal court nominee Ronni...
LOS ANGELES - Chicago's Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal will be adding four attorneys to its Los Angeles office Feb. 1. Part...
LOS ANGELES - In the end, the vote was the same. But the real effects of the conflict between county prosecutors and the Los A...
SAN FRANCISCO - In a sharp rebuke of the federal government's zero tolerance drug policy for pubic housing residents, the 9th ...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review two murder convictions of an Alameda County woman whos...
Personal Injury & Torts
Trial Starts for Continental, Maker Of Paralyzed Woman's Car Tires
By Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Manufacturing and design defects caused a 1996 tire-tread separation accident that left a young woman paralyzed ...
LOS ANGELES - It's too bad Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Murphy can't give guided tours of the inside of his head. ...